Chandi Chowk to China had its third premiere at Toronto, Canada. Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and director Nikhil Advani all wore black on the occassion. Akshay’s wife Twinkle accompanied him as she has been doing on all the previous premieres. This was the last premiere of the movie in North America. Chandni Chowk to China is going to become the first Bollywood movie with a huge release in US at par with any Hollywood movie. CC2C has been produced by Warner Bros which is one of the biggest production companies in Hollywood. The next premiere of the movie would be at London.

The second international premiere of Chandni Chowk to China was held at AMC Empire Theater, 234 West 42nd Street, (Between seventh & eight Avenues), New York City, United States on January 8. Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, director Nikhil Advani as well as Akshay’s wife Twinkle were present on the occasion. Akshay’s best friend Toronto-based tycoon Ajay Virmani, lent his luxury 17-seater jet to his friend so that the cast and crew of Chandni Chowk to China can attend all the premieres in North America without any delay. Infact the cast of CC2C stayed for only 35 minutes at LA premiere because they had to move to this New York premiere. These premieres are quite significant too because it is an Warner Bros film and it will release at par with any Hollywood film with 50 prints in the US. The next premiere of the movie would be at AMC Yonge & Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada followed by the London premiere at the famous Empire Theater, Leicester Square, London. Akshay seems to be on a great high this year with his next movie Kambakkht Ishq also an international project with a lot of Hollywood stars.

Katrina Kaif looked gorgeous in a black dress at the Autocar Awards 2009 presented by HDFC Bank at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai. In the awards, Honda Siel cars India were the top runners with four awards – ‘Best design’ award for Honda City (new), ’2009 green’ award for Honda Civic Hybrid, ‘Best luxury car’ award for Honda Accord (new) and ‘Viewer’s choice’ award for Honda City.

Chandni Chowk to China premiere at Los Angeles, California which was the first worldwide premiere of the movie. Akshay Kumar has left no stone unturned in the promotion of the movie after the huge success of Aamir Khan’s Ghajini and Shahrukh Khan Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. There would be seven international premieres of movie before its release on January 16. These photos are of the first premiere of Chandni Chowk to China held at the Warner Brother premises becoming the first Bollywood movie to do so. Akshay’s wife Twinkle Khanna and lead actress of CC2C were also present at the premiere. There were a lot of Hollywood directors also present on the occasion including John Landis, the director of Beverly Hills Cop 3, Blues Brothers, Coming To America and Trading Places, Rob Cohen of Dragonheart, The Fast & Furious, Bruce Lee Story and McG, and who has just finished Terminator 4. The exact schedule of the premieres are Los Angeles premiere on January 7 followed by New York premiere on January 9, Toronto, Canada premiere on January 10, London Premiere at the the Empire theater, Leicester Square on January 11, Dubai premiere on January 12, Bangkok premiere on January 13 and finally Delhi premiere on January 14. Akshay seems to have decided to make this film a huge hit overseas too. Best of luck Akshay!

Bollywood actresses Urvasi Chaudhary, Manasi and Yashika on the sets of upcoming movie Trump Card. The stills are from the shooting of the movie at Madh Island, Mumbai where these new actress shoot for a song sequence. The three male actors in the movie are also new faces in Vikram Kumar, Pankaj Gupta and Haider Khan. The movie is a suspense thriller and a murder mystery and the new actors and actresses are excited about the project. The movie seems to be a low budget movie but hope that the movie does not turn out to be another unknown and unwatched movie after its release as most low budget suspense thrillers have been in the past.

Deepika Padukone came as a guest on Farhan Akhtar’s chat show on NDTV Imagine Oye Its Friday where she had some intense questioning from Farhan. He asked her about the most beautiful girl in Bollywood to whom she replied Sonam Kapoor. She was also quizzed about her relationship with Ranbir Kapoor by Farhan. She was also seen in the show as a part of promotion of her upcoming movie Chandni Chowk to China with Akshay Kumar. In the show, lyricist and Farhan’s dad Javed Akhtar is also said to have made an entry. Javedji also did Bhangra dance on the show which was quite funny as he is a very serious person normally. The episode will be aired on TV on this Friday and hope everybody will enjoy it. Here are some stills from the show.

Aamir Khan launched the book “Bacchanalia” which is based on the films of Amitabh Bachchan. The whole Bachchan family was present on the occasion including Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Sweta Bachchan. Aamir Khan who has always admired Amitabh Bachchan was invited to lauch the book which he immediately accepted. Aamir had also told recently that Amitabh Bachan is the best Bollywood actor (in course of his Khan war with Shahrukh for the number 1 actor in Bollywood). During the event, Aamir had a lot of praises for the megastar of the millenium and said

Often I find in this line that success is not directly proportionate to talent and hard work. But here is one case where it is certainly proportionate to the talent and hardwork Mr Bachchan has

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were also looking great in the event. They said

As a family we are very proud and humbled by the gesture for the release of this book

Amitabh also said

It has been a wonderful experience. I am very happy that somebody has documented this. I feel obliged and honoured

Ameesha Patel with current boyfriend Kanav Puri, Shahid Kapoor, Esha Deol, David Dhawan, choreographer Ahmed Khan, Bunty Walia, Ken Ghosh and BCCI secretary Rajiv Shukla with wife Anuradha Prasad came to Sanjay Dutt’s New Year party at his Pali Hill residence. Ameesha Patel who also performed at Country Club, Andheri earlier in the night came with present boyfriend Kanav Puri and was looking gorgeous in a green mini skirt. Amongst others, Shahid Kapoor was looking cool as always while Esha Deol was her simple self in the party.

Anushka Sharma, the co-star of Shahrukh Khan in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi entered into Bollywood with a bang with the success of RNBDJ. She has been liked for her simple and girl-next-door looks and charming beauty. She won the “Dancing Jodi” competition in the movie alongwith Shahrukh Khan. But she recently appeared at the actual dancing jodi competition “Nach Baliye 4″ as a special guest. She also did some dance steps in the competition showing her dancing skills. Here are some stills from the same. The show would be telecast on January 2 at Star Plus at 8 PM.

New York is the upcoming Aditya Chopra movie which stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh (of Johny Gaddar fame) and Irrfan Khan. This Yashraj film is directed by National award winning director Kabir Khan who has also directed Kabul Express for YRF perviously. The movie would be the first Yash Raj release in 2009 and it would try to repeat the success of RNBDJ. Yashraj Films had a mixed year in 2008 with huge success like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and big disasters like Tashan.